Education Background & Content

Here are some documents that can help us learn about the context in which we will be working. Please add other documents, ideas, or pictures that will help us as we plan the curriculum.

Education Background/Context

Official Documents

A1. - Many of the teachers in rural Africa are teaching in classrooms with more than one grade level. Sue recommends this document as helpful in getting a handle on some of the challenges that brings.

A2. - Another UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) document, this one designed to help those who are facilitating any type of non-formal adult learning, including literacy training.

A3. - The official government document produced by the Ministery of Education and Culture (MEC).

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A6. - Education for All Report

A7. - "Large Class Sizes in the Developing World: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?" Report from USAID (US Agency for International Development) 2007.

A8. - "Multigrade Teaching: A Discussion Doccument." Focusing on Africa and the Carribean.

Research Papers

B1 . - Masters Thesis written by Aimee Howarth that ties in literacy instruction with discipleship from a Christian perspective. Aimee was in Mozambique the year after Katherine and I left, and then she went to seminary at Fuller Seminary in California. She is currently raising funds to go back to Mozambique to live in the northern region and focus on discipling women.

In the News

C1. - An interesting article written by a teacher from Canada who went over wondering what she would be able to do and how effective she would be able to be. Sound familiar? This article was published in a magazine of a teachers union in Canada.

C2. - News brief from the Mozambique Investor regarding the anticipated shortage of trained teachers this year.

Curriculum Content Ideas